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Positives and Negatives:

While using this program a number of points both positive and negative came up. These are listed below for easy reference.

Positives:

⋅         Export to DVD produces great quality video playback

⋅         Supports a myriad of devices

⋅         On a fast PC the file import and export completed in a very short time

⋅         File export produces very good quality video playback

Negatives:

⋅         Program was to 'dark". Black writing on a grey background is not the easiest to read

Conclusion:

This is quite an impressive program that allows you to take nearly any format of movie and convert it into just about any other format and place it onto a device of your choosing. Be that a DVD, PDA or even just a file on your computer to watch and burn at a later date.

Looking back at the original statement by DVDXSoftware,

Video Vault is a "Rosetta Stone" for the digital video age, enabling you to convert DVD's, VCD's, Tapes and Downloaded videos to virtually any device including any blank DVD disc, Mobile Phones, PDA's, Wireless Media Servers, and even the latest technology - Personal Video Players. The amazing part is you don't need to know anything about codecs, formats, bit rates, frame rates, or any other technical information, simply select your device from a list and Video Vault does the rest! In one simple interface you can move your videos off a myriad of consumer electronic devices, store them to view on your computer, organize them, categorize them, then with one-click, transfer them to almost any device with a viewscreen!

Well it is clear from playing with the software that it can do this very successfully. The only major downside that we can see with it at present is the time taken to render some of the more complicated tasks, but this is more than made up for with the quality of the results.

The only other slight annoyance was the colour of the program. It felt to dark and the black on grey writing was not the easiest to read at times. Maybe an option to change the colour via a skin or even just changing the grey background to silver would help and brighten up the whole look of the application.

To complete this review off, we submitted a few questions to the developers of the software. Below are the questions and their responses.

Are all video devices supported automatically or will future updates be required when new devices come to the market?

Yes, we can automatically update the user's computer with new devices. The software checks the users Devices.ini file against the server's, and if there are updates they are automatically downloaded. (Tiny file)

Are there any thoughts on adding a LightScribe or label feature to the program so that home created movies can be given a proper label?

No current plans for this. Future perhaps.

As most video capable device also supports pictures do you plan on releasing a photo and video program?

Yes we are adding Music and Photo capabilities to Video Vault right now. That will be the next major update.  At that point the name will change to "Media Vault"

Final Word:

This is certainly an all in one program for transferring video. It has a very easy to understand interface that will not confuse most beginners but allow them to do what they want with the program.

Overall we both rated this software quite highly. At first we were both a little unsure of it's purpose but once we had some time to play with it we could see the benefits of it for people that have old tapes and DVD's lying around but also have all the new high tech gizmos that could handle these movies if they could simply get them onto it.